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We have a lot of popular best sellers at the Waban Library Center – books that typically have long waiting lists at other libraries. We are also happy to take recommendations for books from our patrons. We also have a new collection of Playaways – all in one devices for you to listen to a favorite book. To request a book, please fill out the online form or call us during our open hours. We can not take book requests by email or by filling out the ask the librarian form.

  • Dream Count Jacket Cover
  • The Jackal's Mistress Jacket Cover
  • Parable of the Sower Jacket Cover
  • Homeseeking Jacket Cover
  • Paris Express Jacket Cover
  • The Heart of Winter Jacket Cover
  • The Oligarch's Daughter Jacket Cover
  • More or Less Maddy Jacket Cover
  • Broken Country Jacket Cover
  • Black Woods, Blue Sky Jacket Cover
  • Twist Jacket Cover
  • Wild Dark Shore Jacket Cover
  • We All Live Here Jacket Cover
  • Room for Vanishing Jacket Cover
  • Nesting Jacket Cover
  • Playground Jacket Cover
  • The Magnificent Ruins Jacket Cover
  • The Antidote Jacket Cover
  • Show Don't Tell Jacket Cover
  • This is a Love Story Jacket Cover
  • Presumed Guilty Jacket Cover
  • Three Days in June Jacket Cover
  • Good Dirt Jacket Cover
  • Time of the Child Jacket Cover
  • Four Letters of Love Jacket Cover
  • Stone Yard Devotional Jacket Cover
  • Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
  • The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony
  • 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen
  • The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
  • Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd
  • Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  • Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
  • Paris Express by Emma Donahue
  • James by Percival Everett
  • The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison
  • The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder
  • More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
  • Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
  • Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  • Piglet by Lottie Hazell
  • Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
  • Twist by Colum McCann
  • Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
  • We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
  • Room for Vanishing by Stuart Nadler
  • Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell
  • Playground by Richard Powers
  • The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy
  • The Antidote by Karen Russell
  • Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
  • This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
  • Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
  • Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
  • Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
  • Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
  • The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden
  • Rental House by Weike Wang
  • Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
  • Time of the Child by Niall Williams
  • Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
  • Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
  • Memorial Days Jacket Cover
  • When the Going Was Good: an Editor's Adventures Jacket Cover
  • A Walk in the Park Jacket Cover
  • Revenge of the Tipping Point Jacket Cover
  • The Serviceberry Jacket Cover
  • What the Chicken Knows Jacket Cover
  • Anti-Semitism in America Jacket Cover
  • The Elements of Marie Curie Jacket Cover
  • This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by Kwame Alexander
  • More is More: Get Looks in the Kitchen by Molly Baz
  • Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
  • When the Going Was Good: an Editor's Adventures by Graydon Carter
  • The message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • On Call by Anthony Fauci
  • A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko
  • Zoe Bakes Cookies by Zoe Francois
  • Be Ready When the Luck Comes by Ina Garten
  • Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  • An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
  • The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
  • Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery
  • What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery
  • The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
  • The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
  • Anti-Semitism in America by Charles Schumer
  • The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel
  • Family Romance: John Singer Sargent by Jean Strouse
  • What Goes With What by Julia Turchin
  • Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
  • Towed by Toad Jacket Cover
  • Knight Owl and Early Bird Jacket Cover
  • Bert the Bowerbird Jacket Cover
  • The Last Stand Jacket Cover
  • You're My Little Lucky Charm Jacket Cover
  • Taxi Ghost Jacket Cover
  • Mixed-Up Jacket Cover
  • Finding Things Jacket Cover
  • Where To Hide a Star Jacket Cover
  • Built To Last Jacket Cover
  • The Truth about Dinosaurs Jacket Cover
  • The Yellow Bus Jacket Cover
  • Dog Man: Big Jim Begins Jacket Cover
  • Sherlock Society Jacket Cover
  • Victor, the wolf with worries Jacket Cover
  • Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue Jacket Cover
  • Baby Dunks-A-Lot Jacket Cover
  • Timid Jacket Cover
  • Ash's Cabin Jacket Cover
  • Two Together Jacket Cover
  • Mid Air Jacket Cover

    Board Books

  • Play With Me: A Playdate Book by Kat Chen
  • You're My Little Lucky Charm by Nicola Edwards
  • Spider in the Well by Jess Hannigan
  • Little Kids First Board Book: Frogs by Ruth Musgrave
  • Bee-BimBop by Linda Sue Park
  • First 100 Words (Bright Baby) by Roger Priddy
  • Can I Sit in the Middle? by Susanne Strasserf

    • Picture Books

  • Ahoy! by Sophie Blackall
  • Alice in Winter Wonderland by Jan Brett
  • The Puppy Bus by Drew Brockington
  • Just Like Millie by Lauren Castillo
  • To See An Owl by Matthew Cordell
  • Dalmartian: A Mars Rover's Story by Lucy Cummins
  • Show Up and Vote by Ani DeFranco
  • Knight Owl and Early Bird by Christopher Denise
  • Bert the Bowerbird by Julia Donaldson
  • The Last Stand by Antwan Eady
  • We are Definitely Human by X Fang
  • The World Needs the Wonder You See by Joanna Gaines
  • Snow is by Laura Gehl
  • The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn by Shawn Harris
  • Finding Things by Kevin Henkes
  • Bunny Should Be Sleeping by Amy Hest
  • When Rosie Walks George by Amy Hest
  • How We Share Cake by Kim Hyo-eun
  • Where To Hide a Star by Oliver Jeffers
  • What Can a Mess Make by Bee Johnson
  • Caboose by Travis Jonker
  • Bakery Dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz
  • Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Laclear
  • Built To Last by Minh & Dan Lee and Santa
  • The Truth about Dinosaurs by Julie Leung
  • Itty Bitty Betty Blog by Constance Lombardo
  • The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
  • Touch the Sky by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic
  • Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo
  • A Map for Falasteen by Maysa Odeh
  • 365: How to Count a Year by Miranda & Julien Paul & Chung
  • Victor, the wolf with worries by Catherine Rayner
  • There Was A Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds
  • Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue by Sherri Rinker
  • The Zebra's Great Escape by Katherine Rundell
  • Angela's Glacier by Jordan Scott
  • Pretty Ugly by David Sedaris
  • Being Home by Traci Sorell
  • The Good Little Mermaid's Guide to Bedtime by Eija Sumner
  • Baby Dunks-A-Lot by Jason Tatum
  • The man who didn't like animals by Deborah Underwood
  • Five Stories by Ellen Weinstein
  • Two Together by Brendan Wentzel

    • Easy Readers/Beginning Chapter

  • Towed by Toad by Jashan Awan
  • Stell & Marigold by Annie Barros
  • The Best Worse Campout Ever by Joe Cepeda
  • Orris and Timble: The Beginning by Kate DiCamillo
  • The Cozy Home by Anne Dyckman
  • Vacation by Ame Dyckman
  • Fluffie Bunnies: Buns Gone Bad by Annie Humphrey
  • Gigi and Ojiji by Melissa Iwai
  • Puggleton Park by Deanna Kizis
  • The Apartment House on Poppy Hill by Nina LaCouer
  • Grumpy Monkey Too Many Bugs by Suzanne Lang
  • Bunny and Clyde by Megan McDonald
  • Little Shrew by Akiko Miyakoshi
  • Unicornia: Learning to Fly by Ana Punset
  • Fox Has a Problem by Corey Tabor
  • I Survived the Black Death by Lauren Tarshis

    • Junior Fiction

  • Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson
  • Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
  • Nana in the Country by Lauren Castillo
  • The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko
  • the Frindle files by Andrew Clements
  • And then Boom by Lisa Fipps
  • Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
  • Liars Society by Alyson Gerber
  • Max the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II by Adan Gidwitz
  • Heroes by Alan Grantz
  • The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry by Anna Rose Johnson
  • First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
  • Phillips Fisher and the Dream-Maker's Daughter by Liz Kessler
  • Westfallen by Ann Kinney
  • Quagmire Tiarello Couldn't Be Better by Mylisa Larsen
  • Tree. Table. Book by Lois Lowry
  • Painting the Game by Patricia MacLanchlan
  • Medusa: The Myth of Monsters, Book One by Katherine Marsh
  • Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness
  • Gracie Under the Waves by Linda Sue Park
  • Hope in the Valley by Mitali Perkins
  • Sherlock Society by James Ponti
  • Percy Jackson: Wrath of the Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan
  • Impossible Creatures by Katherine Runsell
  • Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
  • Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary Schmidt
  • The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys
  • Take it From the Top by Claire Swinarski
  • Not Quite a Ghost by Anne Ursu
  • A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga
  • Mid Air by Alicia Williams
  • Finally Heard by Kelly Yang
  • The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum by Lisa Yee

    • Non-Fiction

  • Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle
  • How do You Spell Unfair? by MacNolia Cox
  • Timelines from Black History by DK
  • The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming
  • The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Chris Harris
  • Jumper by Jessica Lahan
  • A Dangerous Idea: the Scopes Trial by Debbie Levy
  • Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin
  • Houses With A Story by Seiji Yoshida

    • Junior Graphic Novels

  • Duel by Jessica Bagley
  • New Girl by Cassandra Calin
  • Tiger vs, Nightmare by Emily Easter
  • Taxi Ghost by Sophie Escabasse
  • Mixed-Up by Kami Garcia
  • Sunny Makes Her Case by Jennifer Holm
  • How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess by Jeff Kinney
  • Sunshine by Jarrett Krosoczka
  • Chickenpox by Remy Lai
  • The Girl Who Sang by Estelle Nadel
  • Dog Man: Big Jim Begins by Dav Pilkey
  • Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp
  • Pearl by Sherri Smith
  • The Squad by christina Soontornvat
  • Camp Prodigy by Emily Tetri
  • Timid by Jonathan Todd
  • Ash's Cabin by Jen Wang

Teens

  • Sunrise on the Reaping Jacket Cover
  • Our Shouts Echo by Jade Adia
  • The Blood Years by Elana Arnold
  • The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold
  • Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
  • Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth
  • Rez Ball by Byron Graves
  • Snow Globe by Soyoung Park
  • Stunt Boy, In-Between Time by Jason Reynolds
  • Twenty-Four Seconds: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds
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